Shadis was lecturing them about strategy his back to the class. Most of the trainees were writing down the notes from the board. The others who weren't writing notes were mostly quietly goofing off. Sasha and Connie were doodling on their papers. Armin was writing notes and trying to get Eren to pay attention. Jean was paying less attention that Eren was, and was staring at the back of Mikasa's head. She was taking notes, unaware of Jean.
"Dismissed, maggots!" Shadis slammed down the chalk, jolting everybody more awake than they had been two minutes ago. The class all got up and left.
Jean came up with a new plan to get Mikasa later that night at dinner, and told Connie.
"It's foolproof." he was telling Connie.
"What happens if she says no?" Connie inquired.
"She won't say no. It's foolproof."
"Don't you think she'll think lower of you because you didn't take any notes?"
"Connie, don't go analyzing my plan."
"What-"
"Just nod and agree with it, Connie."
His plan took place later that evening.
"Hey, Mikasa, may I borrow your notes from class today?" Jean asked, setting down the pants he was sewing. She stared at him for a while, before getting up. Mikasa was gone for five minutes, coming back with her notebook.
"Thanks, Mikasa! These notes will most definitely help me! It'll prove I can do better than Jaeger!" Mikasa's eyes narrowed.
"I mean, help me do better in class." he quickly corrected, as she went back to her sewing. Jean quickly retreated back to sitting next to Connie and Sasha.
"See? It was foolproof." Jean opened her notebook. Connie burst out laughing after looking at the contents.
"Most definitely foolproof Jean! Maybe not your plan, but her notebook's foolproof from having any idiots read it!"
"You can't read it either!"
"Yeah, but at least I'm not trying to just to win her over!"
"Shut up Connie." Jean looked down at her notebook again. She hadn't written any letters on the pages; instead they were full of characters that made no sense to him.
"Mikasa, how am I supposed to read this?" he asked, holding up her notebook. Mikasa made no move to answer. Eren plopped down next to Jean, looking over his shoulder. He laughed at him too.
"You asked Mikasa for her notebook and can't read it, didn't you?" he laughed.
"Shut up, Jaeger!"
"Horseface."
"What language is this anyway?"
"Japanese, I think." Armin answered, sitting down holding his own notebook.
"How do you know that?"
"Hey Mikasa, you wrote your notes in Japanese today right?" Armin asked, looking at his friend. She nodded.
"Anyway, I brought my notes to help you, since you said you wanted to do better in class." Mikasa took her notebook back, leaving a little earlier than before.
"That's all right Armin. You don't have to help me."
"I really don't mind Jean. Today we learned how to do a coordinated strike today." Jean sat there listening to Armin explain how a couple people get in front of the Titan before people would get behind and strike-actually he really didn't care. Instead of listening to Armin, Jean tuned him out like he had Shadis sighing in defeat. He figured he would just have Armin explain it again when it came nearer to graduation.
A/N: Thanks to Cheesecake Owl for this prompt! I don't really know any military tactics, so I just wrote it based on Titan killings in the manga/anime. Academics will have a part two from Shadis's perspective next chapter. Thanks for reading!
See you later!